The last two weeks have been non-stop action for the Johnnies. We have had four meets in the last two weeks without counting the Drake Relays and the MIAC Decathlon Championships. It calmed down just long enough to finish entries for this weekend’s MIAC Championships. We are predicting a very close meet with Bethel’s track team who are ranked #11 in the country. The Johnnies are currently ranked #14.
We have had a few big highlights in the last two weeks starting with the Drake Relays. The 4x800 relay team of Owen Montreuil (JR, Jordan), Nick St. Peter (JR, Maple Grove), Max McCoy (SO, Mount Michael, NE) and Tommy Allen (SR, St. Paul Academy) started the Drake weekend by breaking the school record with a time of 7:35.84. We have been eyeing that record for a while as it was one of the oldest school records set in 1971 by Brian Racette, Bill Seidl, Greg Cook, and Chuck Way when they ran 7:38.60.
The sprinters responded the next morning during a chilly 9:00 am preliminary round in the 4x100 by running 40.68 which was .03 shy of the school record. The team of Aidan Morey (JR, Creighton Prep, NE), Kevin Arthur (SR, Champlin Park), Kieran Murnan (SO, Holy Angels, and Max Reis (FR, Spectrum) were well prepared for the finals the next day in slightly warmer temperatures. They crushed the record with a 40.28! The previous record was set in 2022 with a younger Kevin Arthur joined by Jack Young, Brady Labine, and Ryan Miller. Here’s the video of the new record: 4x100 School Record Video
Moving on to the MIAC Conference Championships, our decathletes earned us a good head start in the competition by placing first, third and seventh. Senior Max Lelwica (Brainerd) scored 6,905 points for the win. His close teammate, Anthony Thurk (SR, Waconia) scored 6,378 points for third place and freshman Bailey Evans (Breckenridge) finished in seventh place with 5,734 points. Coach Joe has done a tremendous job developing the decathletes and so far leads the coaching competition with the group of decathletes ranked #3 in the country.
MIAC entries are submitted and we are waiting to see who qualifies. This year’s meet is at Macalester on Friday and Saturday this week. Friday’s events start at 2pm with the hammer and long jump. Running events start at 2:30 with a loaded 1500 meter final (the MIAC moved to finals only in the 1500 two years ago). Saturday starts at noon with the javelin and triple jump. We start on the track with the 4x100 final at 1:30pm. If you can’t make it, I have included links below for live streaming and results.
It looks to be a great weekend and hopefully we will see some of you there!
Jeremy